Singapore legislation

Regulation 32

of Radiation Protection (Transport of Radioactive Materials) Regulations

Regulation 32

Particulars of consignment

The consignor shall include in the transport documents with each consignment the following information relating to the consignment, as applicable, in the order given:

(a)

the proper shipping name, as specified in the Sixth Schedule;

(b)

the United Nations Class Number “7”;

(c)

the United Nations Number assigned to the material as specified in the Sixth Schedule, preceded by the letters “UN”;

(d)

the name or symbol for each radionuclide or, for mixtures of radionuclides, an appropriate general description or a list of the most restrictive nuclides;

(e)

a description of the physical and chemical form of the material, or a notation that the material is special form radioactive material or low dispersible radioactive material, and for this purpose generic chemical description is acceptable for chemical form;

(f)

the maximum activity of the radioactive contents during transport expressed in units of becquerels with an appropriate SI prefix, except that for fissile material, the total mass of fissile material in units of grams, or appropriate multiples thereof, may be used instead;

(g)

the category of the package;

(h)

the transport index;

(i)

the criticality safety index, for consignments including fissile material;

(j)

the identification mark for each certificate of approval issued by a competent authority in respect of the consignment;

(k)

for consignments of packages in an overpack or freight container, a detailed statement of the contents of each package within the overpack or freight container and, where appropriate, of each overpack or freight container in the consignment, and if packages are to be removed from the overpack or freight container at a point of intermediate unloading, appropriate transport documentation;

(l)

where a consignment is required to be shipped under exclusive use, the statement “EXCLUSIVE USE SHIPMENT”; and

(m)

for LSA-II, LSA-III, SCO-I and SCO-II, the total activity of the consignment as a multiple of A2.